Every year if not every day, we have to wager our salvation on some prophecy based upon the imperfect knowledge.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.